Briggs

At the 2020 census, 55,710 Americans bore the surname Briggs — 590th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,365.

By the numbers

People: 55,710
Rank: 590th
How common: 1 in 5,365
Per 100,000: 18.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From the genitive or plural form of Middle English brigge (“bridge”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Briggs described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.1%
Black, not Hispanic 18.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Briggs

Henry Briggs (1561–1630)British mathematician
Raymond Briggs (1934–2022)English cartoonist, illustrator
Matthew Briggs (born 1991)Guyanese association football player
Bishop Briggs (born 1992)English singer and songwriter
Shannon Briggs (born 1971)American boxer and actor
Isabel Briggs Myers (1897–1980)American writer
Benjamin Briggs (1835–1872)American sailor
Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963)American engineer

People named Briggs with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Briggs

Also a first name

Briggs has been given to 9,476 American babies as a first name since 1927, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.